GROS LOT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Kilian Thomas, Milena Tessereau
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Two elderly hunters take part in a bingo whose grand prize is somewhat special.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two old men playing bingo for a prize that's *definitely* not a toaster—finally, a premise that knows exactly how absurd it is and commits anyway. This is the kind of genre-warping setup that makes you lean in before the punchline lands, and it'll polarize a room, which is exactly when Felix knows he's right.
The restraint here is the craft: two minutes to establish tone, character, and comedic stakes without tipping into grotesquerie, a formal control that recalls the best European short comedy tradition where the frame itself becomes the joke.
The real move isn't the premise—it's the decision to play it straight, let the absurdity live in the execution rather than winking at the camera, which means everything depends on performance timing and a single, perfectly-placed reveal.